Have you ever wondered whether sexual remarks and inappropriate behavior by your same-sex boss could be grounds to sue for sexual harassment? Well, the short answer is yes. It is unlawful for men to sexually harass men; and women to sexually harass women. (Of course,...
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Sexual Harassment Shocker: “How to Please Women” Not An Appropriate Topic For Staff Meetings
It seems like a no-brainer that sexual discussions, propositions and jokes have no place in the workplace and allowing them can lead to serious liability for employers. Still, the number of cases where boneheaded bosses decide to make bad jokes, request sex from their...
Title VII: Sexual Harassment Training Is More Important Than Stock Car Racing
“Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac. Nobody knows what’s gonna happen next: not on a freeway, not in an airplane, not inside our own bodies and certainly not on a racetrack with 40 other infantile egomaniacs.” Dr. Claire Lewicki in Days of Thunder. The...
Gender Discrimination: “Boys Will Boys” Doesn’t Excuse Sexual Harassment
It shouldn’t take a gender discrimination employment lawyer to tell you it is a bad idea to make fun of a femal employee’s butt. Nonetheless, a former AutoZone, Inc. employee, Marcela Fuentes, won $860,000 in a sexual harassment suit against the company after male...
Sexual Harassment: In Ohio, Harassing Manger Need Not Have Firing Authority For Employer to be Liable
One of the most common forms of sexual harassment that our employment attorneys encounter is “quid pro quo” harassment. Quid pro quo sexual harassment is harassment in which a supervisor coerces sexual favors from a subordinate employee in exchange for a promise of...
Sexual Harassment: How Long Does It Take To Settle A Case? No One Knows.
A lesson for managers and supervisors: if you are aware of sexual harassment in the workplace and you fail to do anything about it, you are exposing your company to a great deal of liability and exposure. Take the recent case involving The Geo Group, Inc., for...
Sexual Harassment: Too Sexy Employee Gets Second Chance With Court
Back in January, our employment discrimination lawyers blogged about the woman in Iowa that was fired for being too irresistible to her employer (Read the blog). Essentially, the Iowa Supreme Court held that a boss could fire a female employee to avoid dealing with...
Is Sexual Harassment Permissible if Directed at Both Female and Male Employees?
Does the fact that sexual harassment is directed at both female and male employees make it okay? The answer, according to the Minnesota Supreme Court, is no. In Rasmussen v. Two Harbors Fish Company, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that sexual harassment need not be...
Hostile Work Environment Claim For Conduct Between Co-Employees Outside Of Workplace? – Not Likely.
A recent U.S. District Court decision in Gillis v. Wal-Mart highlights the question of whether an employee can bring a claim against his or her employer for hostile work environment when the underlying conduct that serves as the basis for the claim occurred outside of...
Sexual Harassment: Egg On Employer’s Face
Although this conduct occurred on an egg farm, this is not a story about chickens. It is a story about pigs. National Food Corporation, a major supplier of eggs to the Pacific Northwestern and Midwestern United States and East Asia. It owned several isolated egg farms...